Crossword-Solution: CHARLATAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Charlatan | n. | One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank. |
We have 85 clues for the answer “CHARLATAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| deceptive imposter | 1 answer |
| She's not for real | 1 answer |
| One who attracts new customers with tricks | 1 answer |
| Impostor, deceiver | 1 answer |
| From Italian for "chatterer" | 1 answer |
| Fraud or faker | 1 answer |
| Flimflam man | 1 answer |
| The Wizard of Oz, for one | 1 answer |
| One’s a fake | 1 answer |
| sciolist | 4 answers |
| A QUACK REMEDY | 10 answers |
| shammer | 16 answers |
| hoaxer | 16 answers |
| plotter | 18 answers |
| fraudster | 18 answers |
| MENDACIOUS person | 19 answers |
| Impostor | 19 answers |
| Phony | 19 answers |
| Conspirator | 23 answers |
| dissimulator | 23 answers |
| quacksalver | 23 answers |
| blagueur | 24 answers |
| DOUBLE-faced person | 24 answers |
| Tartuffe | 24 answers |
| empiric | 24 answers |
| Schemer | 24 answers |
| Pretentious talker | 25 answers |
| defrauder | 25 answers |
| Back-stabber | 27 answers |
| conniver | 28 answers |
| Mountebank | 29 answers |
| Dissembler. | 32 answers |
| Con artist | 32 answers |
| Social climber? | 35 answers |
| Liar | 35 answers |
| cheater | 38 answers |
| biter | 39 answers |
| Storyteller | 40 answers |
| Claimant | 41 answers |
| smart aleck | 41 answers |
| confidence man | 41 answers |
| Braggadocio | 44 answers |
| Boaster | 44 answers |
| Faker | 45 answers |
| Talker | 46 answers |
| Braggart | 46 answers |
| Traitor | 47 answers |
| renegade | 47 answers |
| Fathead. | 49 answers |
| Blabbermouth | 50 answers |
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Sentences with CHARLATAN (5)
Then one day at San Francisco had come the news of his mother's death; she had left him some money--not much, but enough to set him up in business; so he had cut loose from the charlatan and had opened his “Dental Parlors” on Polk Street, an “accommodation street” of small shops in the residence quarter of the town.
Charlatan, poseur, arrangeur! But he can do as he chooses! My dear young man, I know you don’t like me,” he went on, as Roderick came back.
Like the charlatan who counterfeits a spiritual force he has sometimes felt, they lose the power they have abused.
However divided opinion might be on the question of Leonard’s status as a wonderworker or a charlatan, he certainly arrived at Mary Hampton’s house-party with a reputation for pre-eminence in one or other of those professions, and he was not disposed to shun such publicity as might fall to his share.
The pickpocket, the blackleg, and the charlatan make especial use of their dexterity of hand, their subtlety of mind, the magic power of their eloquence, and their great fertility of invention.
Quotes with CHARLATAN (3)
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
When I used to come home from school Mother used to ask me what happened that day, and I’d tell her,” said Miss Pefko. “Now I come home from work and she asks me the same question, and all I can say is — ”Miss Pefko shook her head and let her crimson lips flap slackly — “I dunno, I dunno, I dunno.”“If there’s something you don’t understand,” urged Dr. Breed, “ask Dr. Horvath to explain it. He’s very good at explaining.” He turned to me. “Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any sci…
There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1973–2024).